by Nina Levine
She moaned into my mouth as her legs and arms circled me. By the time we finished with the kiss, we were both a mess of frantic desire. Problem was, we couldn’t do anything with it. Not with her family in the house.
Gripping my hair, she panted, “God, I want to fuck you.”
“Jesus,” I rasped, “I need to get out of here.”
She pulled her head back to look me in the eyes. “You’re not staying the night?” Her disappointment couldn’t be mistaken. It was written all over her and bled from her voice.
My fingers dug into her hips. “There’s no fucking way I can sleep next to you tonight without having my hands all over you and my dick inside you.”
“So do that.”
She didn’t know what she was saying. “Lily, your mother and your kids are in the house. You do not want me—”
She pressed her lips to mine and claimed another kiss from me. “Maybe I do.”
“Fucking hell.” I slid my hands around her ass and yanked her hard against me. “The level of need I have for you isn’t the kind that can be satisfied with a quick fuck, and it sure as hell won’t be quiet. There is no way I’m fucking you tonight.”
She squeezed her arms and legs around me even tighter, like she couldn’t get close enough to me. Bending her face to my neck, she kissed me there and murmured, “I’m sorry I’m being needy. I just really want you to stay and cuddle me tonight.”
“I don’t fucking cuddle, Lily.”
Her mouth moved along my collarbone as she continued kissing me. “Yeah, you do. It’s nice.”
Hell, no one had ever called the shit I did nice. And just like that, I changed my fucking mind. I let her go and took a step back. “Get your ass in the bedroom.”
Her eyes lit up. “You’re staying?”
“Yeah, I’m fucking staying.”
12
King
“See, you do cuddle,” Lily said early the next morning when she woke. “You’re like a big bear, all arms and legs around me.”
I tightened my embrace and ground my dick against her ass. The night had been hell sleeping next to her. I put my mouth to her ear. “What time do your kids wake up?” I’d stuck to my word last night and hadn’t fucked her, but I wasn’t a fucking saint—I couldn’t restrain myself any longer.
She wiggled and twisted until she faced me. Reaching for my dick, she said, “We’ve got at least an hour, I’d say.”
Before she knew what was happening, I had her under me, naked. Raising her arms over her head against the headboard, I pressed firmly on her wrists and ordered, “Keep them there.”
The change in my tone caught her attention and her eyes flared with the same excitement they did every time I had her. That always increased my desire, and today was no different. But fuck, after the past couple of days, the need I had for Lily had stirred some dark shit in me, so what I felt now had me on the edge of danger. I was fighting with myself not to take her too far, not to fucking break her. And that in itself was a whole other mindfuck, because caring whether I forced a woman past that edge wasn’t something I’d experienced for a long time.
I ran my gaze down the curves of her body, taking my time with this because it helped focus the erratic thoughts in my head. When I was this wired for sex, my mind ran in a million different directions, imagining every last fucking thing I wanted to do. Some fucked-up shit drew me down dark alleys in my brain, demanding release. Driving my actions. Sometimes I acted on these thoughts, other times, I managed to control myself. Today, I was working like fuck to get a handle on my shit. It seemed that wanting a woman as much as I wanted Lily, heightened my dark desires.
Fuck.
“King.”
Her voice snapped me back to attention, and I reacted with a hand around her neck. “Don’t talk,” I rasped, my gaze pinned to her throat. I’d come back to her neck, but first I needed to taste her.
I bent my face to suck one of her nipples into my mouth as I cupped a hand around her tit. Lily’s breasts were a perfect fucking handful, and if we weren’t on a time limit today, I’d dedicate some serious time to them. Since we were low on time, I made do with a few minutes sucking and biting before continuing down to her pussy.
She arched her back as I let go of her neck and gripped her hips. And when my fingers dug into her soft skin, a moan fell from her lips. Before I buried my face in her cunt, I glanced up to find her head turned to the side, eyes closed, mouth parted while she took shallow breaths.
Fucking hell, she was beautiful.
My need raged through me at the sight, and I forced her legs wide, slid my body down the bed, flat to the mattress, and finally took the taste of her I’d been craving for days.
She was wet for me, and within a few moments of running my tongue through her, my beard was fucking coated in her. Gliding my hands under her ass, I lifted her slightly so her pussy was in line with my mouth. And then I ate her out, my rhythm rough and hard.
It was all lips and tongue and teeth, a little brutal, completely possessive. This was me stamping my fucking ownership of her cunt. And she fucking loved it. Lily writhed and moaned and pulled my hair while I made her come. As her orgasm took hold, our eyes met and I licked slowly along her pussy, lapping her cum up.
“Oh fuck, King… Fucking hell…” Her head fell back as she arched up off the bed again and shuddered through the orgasm. Her body was a quivering mess, and seeing her lose herself like that got me harder than I already was.
I moved off the bed, stripped out of my boxers, and grabbed a condom before coming back to her. Dropping it on the mattress, I reached for her legs and yanked her down to where I stood at the end of the bed. She’d barely recovered from her orgasm and my rough movements appeared to bewilder her as she attempted to bring her complete attention around to what I was doing. She was fucking hot with her flushed skin, messy hair all over the place, and those lips of hers slightly parted while she watched me to see what would come next.
When I had her sitting on the end of the bed, I grasped her cheeks with one hand while slowly wiping her cum from my beard with my other hand. She stared silently up at me, just like I’d told her. Taking hold of my dick, I ran the tip of it along her mouth. “Open up and suck me in. I wanna feel your throat,” I growled.
Keeping our eyes locked, she placed one hand over mine, wrapped her lips around my cock and took it into her mouth. She did as I said and sucked me back to her throat. As I shifted my hand away, her fingers laced through mine and she gripped me firmly keeping our hands together, eyes still holding mine. She worked my dick with long and slow sucks. Her rhythm wasn’t my usual preference, but fuck if I didn’t want anything but what she gave. Her tongue slid over me with the same slow style her lips did, and a low moan came from deep within her, signalling how fucking turned on she was. It vibrated along my dick, and her lips pulled up a little as the hint of a smile touched them, revealing her pleasure.
Everything she did quieted the frenzy in my mind. It was as if by her slowing this down, she slowed my brain down. She pulled all my thoughts into a straight line, helping me focus on the one thing I wanted rather than allowing those thoughts to shoot out in a thousand different directions. It was clarity like I’d never experienced, and fuck, the pleasure was intense.
I needed to be inside her cunt.
Needed her heat.
Her wet tightness around me.
Now.
And while I’d intended to have her from behind, the need to fuck her while looking into her eyes overwhelmed me. I had to fucking watch as she took my dick. As she took everything I had to give her.
I pulled out of her mouth and reached for the condom. After I tore it open, she grabbed it from me and said, “I want you to fuck me bare. I’m on the pill.”
I always made a point not to fuck without a condom. I didn’t wanna put kids out there on the street without a father if the woman fell pregnant and didn’t fucking tell me. I also didn’t wanna have kids with the whores I’d fuc
ked. Lily was different. It was fucking beyond my understanding, but I trusted her. I didn’t hesitate for a second when she asked me for this.
Jerking my chin at her, I directed, “Move back up the bed.”
She did what I said, lying with her head on the pillow, watching and waiting. So fucking ready for me.
I put my knee to the mattress and made my way to her. Placing my hands on her thighs, I spread her legs and bent my face to take another taste of her. I licked her clit before pushing my tongue inside. Fuck, I needed hours with her cunt. With my mouth to it. My tongue inside it. But that would have to be another time. We had that fucking time limit hanging over us, and even more than that, I needed my dick deep inside her.
Kneeling with my legs spread and my ass to my feet, I gripped her and pulled her to me. I positioned her legs over mine, her feet flat to the bed behind me, and without wasting another second, I slammed inside her.
“Oh God,” she cried out, arching her neck while her eyes fluttered closed.
I put my hands to the bed either side of her and bent for a mouthful of tit. As I sucked and bit her, she took hold of my shoulders and gripped me hard. I grunted as her nails dug sharply into my skin, and bit her harder. Lily loved it rough and returned it to me. She reached her hands around to my back and clawed my skin there. That shit hit my veins and my mind at the same time, drawing a savage response from me.
I tore my mouth from her breast and found her eyes as I curled my hand around her throat. Applying enough pressure to steal some of her breath, I thrust hard inside her and growled, “You like that?”
She nodded, her need for me unmistakable, her nails digging into me again.
Her answer stirred my animal side further, and I finally succumbed to it. I allowed my needs to take over fully and pounded into her with unrelenting force. With both hands around her neck, I watched her take everything from me. Nothing escaped my notice. Not the way she bit the inside of her lips, or the way her breathing sped up, or the way her mouth parted and her tongue curled as the pleasure consumed her. I saw it all, and I fucking stored that shit in my mind. I didn’t want to forget any of it.
She came, eyes closed, hands gripping my biceps, squeezing hard enough to leave bruises. I followed her over the edge a moment later, burying my face against her neck to muffle my roar. I stayed there until she let go of my arms and reached her hands up to the back of my neck and threaded her fingers through my hair.
Something about that caused my gut to tighten, and a feeling so violently demanding and unexplainable filled me. It rushed at me, claiming my attention unlike it had been in a long time. It wasn’t just one feeling; it was many intertwined, but together they equalled one.
Mine.
Lily was mine, and I would do whatever the fuck it took to keep her.
13
King
I eyed Zane. “So, you’re telling me it was one of Romano’s guys who killed Jen?”
“No, I’m telling you we’ve traced a car caught on the surveillance the day of the murder, to him. On top of that, we can’t trace any of the other vehicles in the area to anyone of significance to you. There are a couple we can’t track at all, but if I had to give you an opinion, I’d put it at around 95 percent certainty it was Romano.”
I leaned back in my office chair and exhaled the breath that had been trapped inside me for weeks. It had to have been Romano.
Zane didn’t wait for a response before continuing. “As for Brant, he’s left Sydney, and as best we can make out, he’s back in Melbourne. We had a hit on his credit card there last night. Still can’t confirm if Ivy is with him or not.”
“Keep tracking him. Winter was supposed to head down there tomorrow. I’ll move that up, and he can go today.”
“Will do.”
After he left, I sat for a moment thinking about all the shit we’d been through over the last few weeks thanks to Romano. While we still had stuff to work through, a weight had lifted off my shoulders. Now we could direct all our efforts to dealing with the feds and then Gambarro. That motherfucker still had to be taken care of.
I exited the office and headed out to search for Hyde. He’d arrived back at the clubhouse about half an hour ago after helping Nitro take care of a cleaning job that had been called in early this morning. Business was almost back to normal on all fronts. We just had one thing left to deal with before club life could go back to normal.
I found Hyde in the kitchen with Scott. Glancing up at me, he said, “Just got a call about that meet with Black Deeds scheduled for Monday. They wanna push it to Thursday. You good with that?”
“Yeah, but let Zero know we won’t push it again.” Looking at Scott, I asked, “You boys pulling out tonight?”
He nodded. “We’ll leave around eight. You sure you don’t need us anymore?”
“Zane’s just advised me he believes Romano was behind the shit that went down, so yeah, I’m sure.” To Hyde, I said, “Let everyone know they can move their families home.”
“It’s about fucking time,” he said, echoing my thoughts. It really fucking was.
Leaving them, I made my way to Annika’s room. I figured she’d be in there trying to get the kids to have an afternoon nap. I was right. She looked at me as I pushed the half-open door all the way open, and put her finger to her lips in a silencing motion.
I jerked my chin at the hallway and she nodded, holding up a finger to let me know she needed a minute.
While I waited for her outside the room, a text came through.
Lily: It’s official, I’m going to prison.
Me: Why?
Lily: Zara’s boyfriend just gave me lip. I really am going to kill the little shit.
Me: I could have a word with him
Lily: To save me from prison?
Me: Yeah
Lily: You really like fucking me, huh?
Me: I like a lot fucking more than that
She didn’t come back straight away, and I took a moment allowing it to sink in just how fucking much I liked hearing from her in the middle of the day.
Lily: You like roast chicken?
Me: Yeah
Lily: I’m cooking it for dinner. You should come. 6pm.
Me: I’ll be there. Don’t commit murder before I see you
Annika stepped out into the hallway as I sent the last message. Closing the door softly behind her, she said, “What’s up? And why do you look all smiley?”
“What the fuck does all smiley mean?”
She pulled her head back, inspecting my face. Waving her finger at me, she said, “That look in your eyes. You might not actually be smiling with your mouth, but your eyes are.”
Another text sounded and I glanced down at my phone.
Lily: You should sleep over more often. I’m liking this side of you.
Lily: I mean, I know there would have to be some hot sex to go with that sleeping over, but just sayin’ I’m down.
Lily: BTW you give good head. I’m always down for that.
Fuck.
Me: Stop texting me. I’m busy
Lily: I wish you were busy with me.
Lily: OK, OK, I’m stopping now. I’ll get you some more beer on the way home. Just let me know if you prefer something different to last night.
I shoved the phone back in my pocket and met Annika’s gaze.
She lifted her brows at me and crossed her arms. “Okay, brother, what gives? Who is this woman and when do I get to meet her?” When I didn’t answer her, she said, “It’s clearly a woman. The only other time in your life that I’ve seen you smile like this was when you were first dating Ivy. You may as well tell me before Skye figures it out. You know what she’s like when someone in the family is dating. I can save you from her if I’m prepared.”
She was right—Skylar had a way of forcing herself on the people we dated. I hadn’t been subjected to it for a long time, but I’d watched as she’d done it to Axe and Nik over the years. Skye was too much for some of the people they
dated, but I had a feeling Lily would be okay with her.
“It’s Lily, Skye’s physio, so I think we’re good, Nik.”
Her eyes widened. “Oh my God, I never saw that coming.” She grinned. “I like it.”
Shifting the conversation back to what I came for, I said, “I came to let you know you can take the kids home.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, really. I can take you when they wake up if you want.”
A smile spread out across her face. “This is the best news you could have given me. The department called me offering me some days, so I’ll be able to say yes.”
Annika was a primary school relief teacher. She’d taken time off when her dickhead ex-boyfriend had talked her into letting him support her. I’d argued with her over the wisdom of that, but she’d been so infatuated with him she hadn’t been able to see straight. That, and she had a burning desire to be at home for her kids, which I understood. In the end, he’d shown his abusive side and I’d gotten her out of that shit. What I couldn’t get her out of was her inability to find a job that worked in with her kids. I was fucking over the moon to hear the education department had called her.
“Let me know when you’re ready to go,” I said. “I’ll be around the clubhouse all afternoon.”
“Thank you,” she said, like I’d given her the world.
I shook my head. “Don’t thank me, Nik. I put you and the kids in this position, and I fucking hate that I had to.”
Her smile lingered. “You really need to stop giving yourself a hard time over stuff. It’s not like you intentionally cause bad things to happen.”
“No, but I’ve made my choices in life and now I have to live with them. And unfortunately, they affect you guys.”
